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Spring Collection
Everyone in the world of fashion has been waiting for months, impatient to learn the names of the three American unknowns who will be picked to go to Paris to star in the debut spring collection of brilliant, bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi. No one is more anxious than Frankie Severino, twenty-seven years old and second-in-command at the modeling agency owned by her best friend, former model Justine Loring. The lucky models will be given an unprecedented chance at fame and fortune--one of them will win a $12 million contract to represent Lombardi's couture house. The agency that represents them will immediately become the hottest in town.
When the three names are announced, Frankie is stunned--all are under contract to Justine Loring. This outrageous and inexplicable stroke of good luck forces Justine to admit to Frankie that it's no accident. Jacques Necker--the Swiss billionaire launching Lombardi--is her father, the man who deserted her mother before she was born. Justine has consistently refused to meet him, and the Lombardi contest has been his attempt to lure her to Paris. But Justine won't play his game. She sends Frankie in her place as chaperone for the three young women.
Ambitious April Nyquist, with her deceptive ice-princess facade, is a classic blonde from Minnesota. Sophisticated, much-traveled Jordan Dancer is a magnificent African-American, the daughter of a regular army colonel. Tinker Osborn is a vulnerable, timid Cinderella from Tennessee.
Frankie and her charges spend two intrigue-filled weeks in Paris as the adventure-bound girls get ready to face the challenge of a runway show where they will be surrounded by the top models in the world. Under the magical spell of Paris in winter, all of them, including Frankie, become restless, rebellious and wildly romantic. In New York, meanwhile, Justine undergoes a surprising, passionate personal transformation that finally leads her to confront her father.
When the three names are announced, Frankie is stunned--all are under contract to Justine Loring. This outrageous and inexplicable stroke of good luck forces Justine to admit to Frankie that it's no accident. Jacques Necker--the Swiss billionaire launching Lombardi--is her father, the man who deserted her mother before she was born. Justine has consistently refused to meet him, and the Lombardi contest has been his attempt to lure her to Paris. But Justine won't play his game. She sends Frankie in her place as chaperone for the three young women.
Ambitious April Nyquist, with her deceptive ice-princess facade, is a classic blonde from Minnesota. Sophisticated, much-traveled Jordan Dancer is a magnificent African-American, the daughter of a regular army colonel. Tinker Osborn is a vulnerable, timid Cinderella from Tennessee.
Frankie and her charges spend two intrigue-filled weeks in Paris as the adventure-bound girls get ready to face the challenge of a runway show where they will be surrounded by the top models in the world. Under the magical spell of Paris in winter, all of them, including Frankie, become restless, rebellious and wildly romantic. In New York, meanwhile, Justine undergoes a surprising, passionate personal transformation that finally leads her to confront her father.
358 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
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Judith Krantz
74 books305 followersJudith Krantz was an American author of blockbuster romance novels including her first novel Scruples followed by Princess Daisy. Krantz's books have been translated into 52 languages and sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. Seven have been adapted as TV miniseries, with her late husband, Steve Krantz.
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April 10, 2024
"What right did that Swiss bourgeois have to impose his own taste on the presentation of the collection? Did his financial backing give him a free rein to call all the shots"?
Spring Collection by Judith Krantz
3.5 stars rounded up to four for Spring Collection.
What Fun reading! This is a book about three models who win a contest and what happens to them as a result. Most of the story takes place in Paris which is pretty nice. It's a fun book that I really enjoyed.
The three models are as different as can be. There is April, the sweet blonde, Jordan, the woman of color and Tinker, a redhead. The three of them will have their chance to model for a famous designer in Paris where one of them will be chosen as the face of his new collection.
There are two other pivotal women characters in this book. The lady who books the models, a sassy mischievous lady by the name of Frankie and Justine the owner of Loring Modeling agency.
This is chick lit and it is a great read for when you have read one to many dark books and want a break. Parts of it are not realistic so there is that. Interestingly, I had not to many issues with that aspect. It was a fun read, made all the more fun by some really good characterizations.
I should say it is not all sweetness and light..some pretty dark stuff does happen. But by and large it is a light fun read and I enjoyed it.
Spring Collection by Judith Krantz
3.5 stars rounded up to four for Spring Collection.
What Fun reading! This is a book about three models who win a contest and what happens to them as a result. Most of the story takes place in Paris which is pretty nice. It's a fun book that I really enjoyed.
The three models are as different as can be. There is April, the sweet blonde, Jordan, the woman of color and Tinker, a redhead. The three of them will have their chance to model for a famous designer in Paris where one of them will be chosen as the face of his new collection.
There are two other pivotal women characters in this book. The lady who books the models, a sassy mischievous lady by the name of Frankie and Justine the owner of Loring Modeling agency.
This is chick lit and it is a great read for when you have read one to many dark books and want a break. Parts of it are not realistic so there is that. Interestingly, I had not to many issues with that aspect. It was a fun read, made all the more fun by some really good characterizations.
I should say it is not all sweetness and light..some pretty dark stuff does happen. But by and large it is a light fun read and I enjoyed it.
October 3, 2015
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I sometimes read what I call "airplane reading" or "escape reading". I might even refer to it as "junk reading". This book, however, is fully deserving of that title.
It was written in the 1990s but that doesn't excuse Krantz's lack of awareness of certain issues. Most upsetting to me, of course, were the animal issues.
The story is about several models and model managers, so of course we know it will include fashion tidbits. The models and others in this case wear fur, leather, silk, sheepskin. I may have missed the snakeskin and crocodile, but I"m sure they would wear those skins as well if there were sufficiently fashionable. They eat the usual run of beef, chicken, fish, and also foie gras and veal. Nobody gives a damn about what those animals go through to grace their bodies or fill their stomachs. Obviously I do.
That aspect of the book irritated me hugely. But a quick hint about the storyline and what else pissed me off:
Frankie Severino is second-in-command at a small model management agency. She works closely with Justine, who owns the company. Of late Justine has been receiving letters and other signs of affection from her father, Jacques Necker. Trouble is, Justine grew up as the sole daughter of her mother and never knew her father. It was only when she was dying that her mother told her the name of her father. Because he had run out on Justine's mother when she became pregnant all those years ago, Frankie is not well-disposed to him and does not want anything to do with him.
Over the years Necker has accumulated a great deal of wealth and he decides on a complex scheme to bring his daughter to see him in Paris. She's onto him, though, and avoids the trap. However, three of her models, accompanied by Frankie, head for Paris to work the runway for a show financed by Necker.
So we have four young attractive women in Paris. And we have Justine back in NYC coping with a broken furnace and an attractive repairman.
Love breaks out all over the place. There are other side issues, of course, but the main theme seems to be that we need romantic love to make our lives complete.
It's pathetic. The whole book runs on a 1950s axis.
I hope that the next person who reads it agrees with at least some of my positions. How can you ignore it all?
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/12549040
I sometimes read what I call "airplane reading" or "escape reading". I might even refer to it as "junk reading". This book, however, is fully deserving of that title.
It was written in the 1990s but that doesn't excuse Krantz's lack of awareness of certain issues. Most upsetting to me, of course, were the animal issues.
The story is about several models and model managers, so of course we know it will include fashion tidbits. The models and others in this case wear fur, leather, silk, sheepskin. I may have missed the snakeskin and crocodile, but I"m sure they would wear those skins as well if there were sufficiently fashionable. They eat the usual run of beef, chicken, fish, and also foie gras and veal. Nobody gives a damn about what those animals go through to grace their bodies or fill their stomachs. Obviously I do.
That aspect of the book irritated me hugely. But a quick hint about the storyline and what else pissed me off:
Frankie Severino is second-in-command at a small model management agency. She works closely with Justine, who owns the company. Of late Justine has been receiving letters and other signs of affection from her father, Jacques Necker. Trouble is, Justine grew up as the sole daughter of her mother and never knew her father. It was only when she was dying that her mother told her the name of her father. Because he had run out on Justine's mother when she became pregnant all those years ago, Frankie is not well-disposed to him and does not want anything to do with him.
Over the years Necker has accumulated a great deal of wealth and he decides on a complex scheme to bring his daughter to see him in Paris. She's onto him, though, and avoids the trap. However, three of her models, accompanied by Frankie, head for Paris to work the runway for a show financed by Necker.
So we have four young attractive women in Paris. And we have Justine back in NYC coping with a broken furnace and an attractive repairman.
Love breaks out all over the place. There are other side issues, of course, but the main theme seems to be that we need romantic love to make our lives complete.
It's pathetic. The whole book runs on a 1950s axis.
I hope that the next person who reads it agrees with at least some of my positions. How can you ignore it all?
January 6, 2016
I have read this book in Dutch, a long time ago, but I still enjoyed reading it in English.
Justine is furious when out of all the thousands of models in New York, her three girls have been chosen to enter the contest. She can’t possibly refuse this, or all her models would run away from her agency, but she knows it has been done to manipulate her. To make her meet with the big boss, Jacques Necker. Her father. Her mother has refused to tell her who her father was all her life, until she was dying. And then she sent him the scrap books and photo albums she has kept all her life, to take her revenge on him for abandoning her when she was pregnant. As Jacques never did have children with his wife (he is now a widower) he desperately wants Justine in his life. But out of loyalty to her mother, who sacrificed so much to raise her own her own and give her everything she could, Justine keeps refusing his overtures.
And now she is needed in Paris by her three young models. But at the last possible moment, she sends of her assistant Frankie, with the excuses of being unable to fly due to an inner ear infection. Jacques is so very sorely disappointed, but he is still a gracious host to Frankie and the three models, and Jordan manages to distract him. She is interested in antiques, and Jacques’ whole house is filled with priceless antique furniture and other items.
The red headed Tinker used to be a beauty pageant Queen, until she hit puberty, and now she wants her place in the lime light again. But she is very insecure, and being trained to be a little doll since she could walk, makes it impossible to her to adapt to the sexy way a model should walk the catwalk during a fashion show. Marco Lombardi, the designer, has promised he will teach her and guide her, as he has set his eyes on her to make her his new pet, to break her and let him do to her whatever he wants. But she is on to him, and beats him at his own game. Still, he works her way too hard, when he chooses her as his main model and as the one to design his clothes on. Her new boyfriend Tom Strauss, whom she met their first night in Paris, is not happy with it, he is the jealous type, and he also asks a lot of her energy.
Gorgeous classic blond April finally finds out she is gay, and with the help of famous journalist Maude (who has come with them to document everything for Maxi Amberville’s magazine) she starts exploring her sexuality. And then she changes her appearance drastically …
Frankie is unable to keep an eye on the girls, when they want to party and keep escaping her, so she just gives in, and has her own good times with Mike, the photographer that Maude brought with her, and who happens to be the boy she crushed on all through high school.
And back in New York, Justine unexpectedly finds her own love in the form of a contractor during the biggest snow storm of the year. But will she give in and meet with her father? She will have to be in Paris for the fashion show …
I loved reading this book. All those main characters and romances are so entertaining to read about, with secrets about the fashion industry revealed. Lots of lines and fun and hardship, as a model’s life is hard work. The man in charge preying on them, and only so very few of them will become world famous. Of course some of those bad guys are in this book as well, trying to get their hands on April, Tinker and Jordan. And Justine herself. Of course Justine is one smart cookie for having started her own model agency while she was still a model herself, and she won’t give in to blackmail.
I know I will read more glitter novels in the future, as they are pure entertainment and give a peak in a world that is so very far away from my own.
8 stars.
Justine is furious when out of all the thousands of models in New York, her three girls have been chosen to enter the contest. She can’t possibly refuse this, or all her models would run away from her agency, but she knows it has been done to manipulate her. To make her meet with the big boss, Jacques Necker. Her father. Her mother has refused to tell her who her father was all her life, until she was dying. And then she sent him the scrap books and photo albums she has kept all her life, to take her revenge on him for abandoning her when she was pregnant. As Jacques never did have children with his wife (he is now a widower) he desperately wants Justine in his life. But out of loyalty to her mother, who sacrificed so much to raise her own her own and give her everything she could, Justine keeps refusing his overtures.
And now she is needed in Paris by her three young models. But at the last possible moment, she sends of her assistant Frankie, with the excuses of being unable to fly due to an inner ear infection. Jacques is so very sorely disappointed, but he is still a gracious host to Frankie and the three models, and Jordan manages to distract him. She is interested in antiques, and Jacques’ whole house is filled with priceless antique furniture and other items.
The red headed Tinker used to be a beauty pageant Queen, until she hit puberty, and now she wants her place in the lime light again. But she is very insecure, and being trained to be a little doll since she could walk, makes it impossible to her to adapt to the sexy way a model should walk the catwalk during a fashion show. Marco Lombardi, the designer, has promised he will teach her and guide her, as he has set his eyes on her to make her his new pet, to break her and let him do to her whatever he wants. But she is on to him, and beats him at his own game. Still, he works her way too hard, when he chooses her as his main model and as the one to design his clothes on. Her new boyfriend Tom Strauss, whom she met their first night in Paris, is not happy with it, he is the jealous type, and he also asks a lot of her energy.
Gorgeous classic blond April finally finds out she is gay, and with the help of famous journalist Maude (who has come with them to document everything for Maxi Amberville’s magazine) she starts exploring her sexuality. And then she changes her appearance drastically …
Frankie is unable to keep an eye on the girls, when they want to party and keep escaping her, so she just gives in, and has her own good times with Mike, the photographer that Maude brought with her, and who happens to be the boy she crushed on all through high school.
And back in New York, Justine unexpectedly finds her own love in the form of a contractor during the biggest snow storm of the year. But will she give in and meet with her father? She will have to be in Paris for the fashion show …
I loved reading this book. All those main characters and romances are so entertaining to read about, with secrets about the fashion industry revealed. Lots of lines and fun and hardship, as a model’s life is hard work. The man in charge preying on them, and only so very few of them will become world famous. Of course some of those bad guys are in this book as well, trying to get their hands on April, Tinker and Jordan. And Justine herself. Of course Justine is one smart cookie for having started her own model agency while she was still a model herself, and she won’t give in to blackmail.
I know I will read more glitter novels in the future, as they are pure entertainment and give a peak in a world that is so very far away from my own.
8 stars.
July 3, 2023
This took me such a long time and it wasn’t really worth it. There was nothing majorly wrong with it I just found it a drag to read.
July 24, 2025
2 much grooming and shallow characters why are they falling in love in one day and getting married in 2 weeks hello?! And EVVVERRYOKE ENDED Up with someone AND the main point of the book was HARDLY mentioned when it was time bye lmfao what a joke
October 9, 2021
I don’t know where to start, but this was a terrible book that leaned to the trashy side, which isn’t my thing. The only other Krantz novel I read was Lovers (without knowing there were others in the series) and it wasn’t horrible, even though the lead character was flighty and annoying. I mention it because I liked the writing style, how the characters jumped back and forth and all seemed to have their own separate sun-stories. That same style was used in this book, but that was about the only thing I liked about the book. I think any one of these sub-stories could have their own novel, if written by someone else. Krantz’s writing was just so boring. She would go on and on (and on and on) about things that had no relevance to the story, and she used names and terms from the fashion business that normal people wouldn’t know. Worst of all, however, were the horrible colloquialisms and horrible phrases she used. For instance, what the hell does, “I don’t know whether to shit or go blind” mean? That character was in her 20s, but it sounded like something an old person would say. There were a lot of ignorant sayings like that and it just made the writing worse than it already was.
All in all, I liked the characters of Justine, Aiden, Jacques Necker, Jordan, and even Mike. Frankie was just too flighty and her dialog was odd.
The final horrible thing I will mention is how all these women met and fell in love with men within a day or two. It’s just ludicrous. Not to mention that two of them were basically raped and it was thrown in and passed over quickly. This was a horrible book, and I’m just glad it’s over.
All in all, I liked the characters of Justine, Aiden, Jacques Necker, Jordan, and even Mike. Frankie was just too flighty and her dialog was odd.
The final horrible thing I will mention is how all these women met and fell in love with men within a day or two. It’s just ludicrous. Not to mention that two of them were basically raped and it was thrown in and passed over quickly. This was a horrible book, and I’m just glad it’s over.
July 30, 2017
How fun this book was! I really enjoyed it as a welcome change of pace.
Ahhh ... the good economy. Happy memories there! This is set in 1994 where opulence was at it's height. The characters were very well done and I related and cared for them. The storyline, while on the surface sounds dull, was quite good! Lots of over-the-top nonsense that just added to the fun.
I rate my books on a few criteria -
1. How good it is FOR ITS' GENRE. Let's remember, this is meant to be entertaining chick-lit, nothing more.
2. How much it entertained me and how well I related to character development.
3. How well it is written - again, given the genre.
Given the above, this one gets four stars, mostly for the sheer entertainment!
(01/20/14)
Ahhh ... the good economy. Happy memories there! This is set in 1994 where opulence was at it's height. The characters were very well done and I related and cared for them. The storyline, while on the surface sounds dull, was quite good! Lots of over-the-top nonsense that just added to the fun.
I rate my books on a few criteria -
1. How good it is FOR ITS' GENRE. Let's remember, this is meant to be entertaining chick-lit, nothing more.
2. How much it entertained me and how well I related to character development.
3. How well it is written - again, given the genre.
Given the above, this one gets four stars, mostly for the sheer entertainment!
(01/20/14)
April 4, 2020
Romantiikkaa, rakkautta, glamouria ja huippumalleja. Pidin kyllä kirjasta ja tarina oli kiva, rentoa ja mukavaa. Mutta iso määrä kirjoitusvirheitä ja tunne että kirja oli muutenkin hieman hutiloiden kirjoitettu laskivat pistemäärää. Jäi tunne että kirjasta puuttui syystä tai toisesta osia tai oli liian rankalla kädellä editoitu. Jotain alkoi tapahtua mutta sitten hypättiinkin tapahtumien yli. En osaa selittää tätä tämän paremmin. Mietin kovasti minkä numeron antaisin, keikuin kolmosen ja nelosen välillä tosi pitkään mutta annoin sittenkin nelosen.
December 6, 2017
Maybe all "chick-lit" is like this and I'm just not familiar, but this was terrible. It was flighty and confusing, the characters didn't stand out, and it was simply ridiculous in the way these strong, independent women gave up their lives within an hour of meeting a man. I was not impressed.
September 2, 2007
Meh. Oddly enough every single character both met and fell in love with someone within one day.
It was blah and boring.
It was blah and boring.
July 2, 2018
I had no idea what genre this novel was, but kind of expected it to be a bit Jackie Collins, that sort of big, dazzling 80's blockbuster full of sin and sex and affairs and backstabbing and such. I don't know if this book made it to those heights, because I didn't get passed the awful, shallow characters.
Yes, this was set in a fashion world, and yes, I understood the constant harping about looks, but you would lose a whole page or more just describing someone's face, which slowed down the whole novel. There was lots of name dropping but without making it clear which names we should remember and which were just names dropped for no real purpose.
The whole crux of the story seemed to be Justine and her manipulation by 'GN' - I couldn't have read the whole novel with him being called that - but Justine wasn't our narrator, so any emotional impact that the storyline and the model selection process etc. had, we didn't see. Instead of Justine wondering about her relationship with GN, whether her business was worth giving in to him, whether she wanted to see him, etc., all we saw was Frankie screaming and shouting like a banshee every other page about things that really didn't matter. Frankie wasn't at all likeable, she was shallow and judgemental. Her beliefs regarding marriage and relationships were so forced to make her point known, I assume to later be demolished by 'The One', that it felt forced and not natural at all.
I couldn't get passed the choice of narrator so I stopped.
Yes, this was set in a fashion world, and yes, I understood the constant harping about looks, but you would lose a whole page or more just describing someone's face, which slowed down the whole novel. There was lots of name dropping but without making it clear which names we should remember and which were just names dropped for no real purpose.
The whole crux of the story seemed to be Justine and her manipulation by 'GN' - I couldn't have read the whole novel with him being called that - but Justine wasn't our narrator, so any emotional impact that the storyline and the model selection process etc. had, we didn't see. Instead of Justine wondering about her relationship with GN, whether her business was worth giving in to him, whether she wanted to see him, etc., all we saw was Frankie screaming and shouting like a banshee every other page about things that really didn't matter. Frankie wasn't at all likeable, she was shallow and judgemental. Her beliefs regarding marriage and relationships were so forced to make her point known, I assume to later be demolished by 'The One', that it felt forced and not natural at all.
I couldn't get passed the choice of narrator so I stopped.
January 11, 2018
Ognuno ha le proprie perversioni libresche. Io ho avuto Judith Krantz, li ho letti tutti (ma che fine ha fatto? Saranno 20 anni che non scrive più).
Scintillante e smagliante, con l’inventiva di un riccio spiaccicato sull’autostrada, ha riscritto all’infinito lo stesso romanzo.
Le donne sono sempre delle avvenentissime e sfigaterrime fanciulle, dotate dell’intelligenza di Minerva e della bellezza di Venere.
Gli uomini a loro destinati (non i cattivoni che si mettono in mezzo) sono un incrocio di bellezza, aitanza, gentilezza e machismo (un frankestein introvabile in natura).
I cattivi hanno un lato umano, non manca mai il gay (uomo o donna).
La storia è a seconda dei casi la rivisitazione di Cenerentola o Biancaneve o La Bella e la bestia. O un mix di tutte e tre.
E alla fine sono tutti felici, e si sono comperati tantissimi vestiti e gioielli (erano gli anni 80-90, ah, il consumismo sfrenato e la beata gioventù).
Scintillante e smagliante, con l’inventiva di un riccio spiaccicato sull’autostrada, ha riscritto all’infinito lo stesso romanzo.
Le donne sono sempre delle avvenentissime e sfigaterrime fanciulle, dotate dell’intelligenza di Minerva e della bellezza di Venere.
Gli uomini a loro destinati (non i cattivoni che si mettono in mezzo) sono un incrocio di bellezza, aitanza, gentilezza e machismo (un frankestein introvabile in natura).
I cattivi hanno un lato umano, non manca mai il gay (uomo o donna).
La storia è a seconda dei casi la rivisitazione di Cenerentola o Biancaneve o La Bella e la bestia. O un mix di tutte e tre.
E alla fine sono tutti felici, e si sono comperati tantissimi vestiti e gioielli (erano gli anni 80-90, ah, il consumismo sfrenato e la beata gioventù).
January 6, 2021
I thought this was terribly dated. I found the resolutions to be too neat, and the characters are cliched. I was horrified by some of the bad guy behavior and the "just desserts" that he ended up with didn't cut it for me.
Sadly, I also thought the collection in the title was insipid rather than new or fresh, even accounting for the date it was written. I normally like books where fashion is involved, not so much for this one.
Sadly, I also thought the collection in the title was insipid rather than new or fresh, even accounting for the date it was written. I normally like books where fashion is involved, not so much for this one.
February 1, 2019
The perfect book to read on a cruise! I found it in the ship's library. I loved Judith Krantz's other novels, Scruples especially, and this one doesn't disappoint. Ms. Krantz herself compares it to The Love Boat, with everyone pairing off at the end, but not until after the usual misunderstandings and steamy sex scenes. Ooh la la!
January 2, 2020
Nice sudsy name-dropping fashiony romance. It's not my favorite Judith Krantz novel but the characters are engaging and the plot is shallow. A good beach read or Sunday morning on the couch kinda book.
May 10, 2022
exciting novel about beautiful, sexual models a
Pure enjoyment. A story about love and yearning Judith Krantz delivers a novel that is more romantic and sexual than Danielle Steele’s
Romances!
Pure enjoyment. A story about love and yearning Judith Krantz delivers a novel that is more romantic and sexual than Danielle Steele’s
Romances!
November 21, 2017
entirely silly trash, but much more good-natured and progressive than the writer's more famous Scruples
December 4, 2017
My mama never should have let me read this when I was 17. Geez.
March 25, 2019
I picked up this book for a light, fluffy change from mysteries and mayhem. It was light and fluffy once I got past the slow start.
April 18, 2019
more delicious classic trash
September 4, 2019
Read this years and years ago but just no marking it "read" on Goodreads.
July 5, 2021
This was the first adult book I ever read and I don't know quite yet if that says everything or nothing about my taste in books.
September 21, 2022
Fun to read a RETRO book!
April 10, 2024
Judith Krantz never disappoints.
July 20, 2024
3.5 ⭐️
August 13, 2025
Lost this book for a while in a road trip.
A busy and quick read with many characters..okay read with many ssssteamy bits!
A busy and quick read with many characters..okay read with many ssssteamy bits!
January 14, 2023
Un viaje en profundidad a los camerinos del mundo de la alta costura.
August 9, 2010
Judith Krantz writes all about glamor, but although Spring Collection is about Couture and beautiful models, it is more about relationships.
Necker a very rich person tries everything to win the heart of his illegitimate daughter about whom he knew nothing at all. Sponsoring the Lombardi Spring Collection is one of his ploys, because Justine, his daughter has a Modeling Agency and Necker in a wild burst chooses all the Models from her agency, hoping against hope that it will bring her to Paris, sadly it does not.
Justine on the other hand falls in love with a contractor who is setting up her heating system. Justine's assistant, Frankie gets her break, goes to Paris, learns to dress beautifully and meets her school crush, Mike Aaron a photographer and they start a relationship.
The beautiful models April (the Scandinavian Goddess) realizes she is gay when she meets Maude from the Zing Mag, changes her look and looks as if heading for a string of conquests. Tinker just cannot handle the pressure and breaks down but takes a break from modeling and decides to live in Paris, but the one person who turns out to be the shrewdest of the lot is Jordan the black model, who realizes that to live a glamorous life where her color is just a matter of curiosity, it has to be Paris amidst so much beauty, antiques and glamor so she proposes to Necker very much older to her.
That was very smart, good for you Jordan no more skin color hassles.
Louvre is described as just an endless maze of corridors, considering that the setting was Paris,we could have had a bit more of the very glamorous city, instead we are given a dose of everyone jumping in bed at every available opportunity.
Necker a very rich person tries everything to win the heart of his illegitimate daughter about whom he knew nothing at all. Sponsoring the Lombardi Spring Collection is one of his ploys, because Justine, his daughter has a Modeling Agency and Necker in a wild burst chooses all the Models from her agency, hoping against hope that it will bring her to Paris, sadly it does not.
Justine on the other hand falls in love with a contractor who is setting up her heating system. Justine's assistant, Frankie gets her break, goes to Paris, learns to dress beautifully and meets her school crush, Mike Aaron a photographer and they start a relationship.
The beautiful models April (the Scandinavian Goddess) realizes she is gay when she meets Maude from the Zing Mag, changes her look and looks as if heading for a string of conquests. Tinker just cannot handle the pressure and breaks down but takes a break from modeling and decides to live in Paris, but the one person who turns out to be the shrewdest of the lot is Jordan the black model, who realizes that to live a glamorous life where her color is just a matter of curiosity, it has to be Paris amidst so much beauty, antiques and glamor so she proposes to Necker very much older to her.
That was very smart, good for you Jordan no more skin color hassles.
Louvre is described as just an endless maze of corridors, considering that the setting was Paris,we could have had a bit more of the very glamorous city, instead we are given a dose of everyone jumping in bed at every available opportunity.
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January 23, 2014
Justine owns a model agency in New York. Somewhat surprisingly, 3 of the models on her books win a 'contest' to go to Paris to present the collection of a new and upcoming designer, Marco Lombardi. Others in the fashion world are surprised that 3 of her models are chosen for this exquisite job, but there are things only Justine knows and Lombardi has his own reasons. The book tells really 5 different stories - the story of Justine, her PA Frankie and the individual stories of the 3 chosen models, all very different and all with their own little stories to tell. All of their lives will be changes by the adventures in Paris and Manhattan, some (most!) will find love by the end of the book as it is expected, but it is still told with a lot of entertainment value.
One of the 'funny' things for me was the mental picture I had in my head of Marco Lombardi. Isn't it funny how we paint a mental picture of book characters in our mind - that is for sure one of the great things about reading a book.
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One of the 'funny' things for me was the mental picture I had in my head of Marco Lombardi. Isn't it funny how we paint a mental picture of book characters in our mind - that is for sure one of the great things about reading a book.
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January 10, 2014
On a day with I needed a reading fix, Krantz's slick cover won out over duller looks in my bookcase. This romance is a quick read and predictable. When main characters, Justine and Frankie, declare they are content running Justine's model agency and disinterested in men, we know we're only a page turn away from the men who will change their lives. The plot involves three models⎯predictably a blonde, a redhead, and a woman of color⎯vying for a prized contract. Before you can say L'Avenue Montaigne, Krantz has introduced a villain to counterbalance the heroes she prefers to pepper through the story. Cutting the extraneous sex scenes would shorten the book by 50 pages.
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